Cubs finish sweep of Pirates

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04/10/2008 - Pittsburgh, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mike Fontenot and Geovany Soto both hit two- run home runs and Jon Lieber provided 4 1/3 innings of scoreless long relief, as the Chicago Cubs finished a sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 7-3 victory at PNC Park.

Lieber (2-1) scattered five hits with one strikeout while accomplishing something starting pitcher Rich Hill couldn't -- he threw strikes. Lieber threw 41 of his 58 pitches for strikes, while Hill only found the plate on 34 of his 72 pitches.

Derrek Lee drove in a pair of runs and Alfonso Soriano finished 2-for-5 with two runs scored. Chicago broke out the brooms in a crazy, marathon series that lasted 36 total frames. The Cubs won in 15 innings on Wednesday after a 12- frame victory on Monday night.

Matt Morris (0-1) was sailing along until the sixth frame. The veteran right- hander was tagged for seven runs -- four earned -- on 11 hits with two walks and three strikeouts.

Nate McLouth and Ronny Paulino each collected two hits for the Pirates, who have lost five of their last six.

Soriano manufactured a run all by himself in the top of the first. He singled, stole second and advanced a base on two straight groundouts, the last off the bat of Lee for an RBI.

The Pirates attacked Hill in the home half of the first. McLouth doubled, advanced to third on a wild pitch and quickly squared the contest on Freddy Sanchez's base hit. Jason Bay and Adam LaRoche both walked to load the bases, and Xavier Nady's sacrifice fly put Pittsburgh in front.

Paulino's single re-loaded the bases and Jose Bautista's sacrifice fly made the score 3-1.

Chicago chipped away in the fifth and exploded in the sixth. Soriano doubled, moved to third on Fontenot's single and came home on Lee's sacrifice fly in the fifth.

The Cubs put a crooked number on the board in the top of the sixth frame to take the lead. Kosuke Fukodome walked and Soto belted a two-run shot over the wall in the center. Ryan Theriot followed with a base hit and Lieber moved him over to second with a bunt. Theriot advanced to third on an error before Reed Johnson's run-scoring single.

Fontenot hit Chicago's second two-run home run of the inning with two outs for a 7-3 lead.

Game Notes

Morris dropped to 12-9 lifetime against the Cubs...The Cubs have won six in a row over Pittsburgh...Sanchez and Bautista committed errors for the Pirates...Attendance 9,798.

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